Hiroshi Mikitani, CEO of Rakuten said: “ While some may see e-commerce as a straightforward vending machine-like experience, we believe it is a living process where both retailers and consumers can communicate, discover, and curate to make the experience more entertaining.

The Intelligent Mechatronics Lab, directed by Hiroshi Kobayashi at the Tokyo University of Science, has developed an android head called Saya, which was exhibited at Robodex 2002 in Yokohama, Japan.

On the surface, an inventor named Goro Ibuki, his nephew Rokuro and their friend Hiroshi Jinkawa are off on an outing near a lake when Seatopia makes itself known to the Earth by drying up the lake the trio was relaxing nearby and using it as a base of operation ( unknown to our heroes.

On 4 December 1941, the Japanese Ambassador General Hiroshi Ōshima told Ribbentrop that Japan was on the verge of war with the United States, which led to Ribbentrop promising him on behalf of Hitler that Germany would join the war against the Americans.

It was established in 1988 by the initiative of Hiroshi Yasuda ( Nippon Telegraph and Telephone ) and Leonardo Chiariglione, group Chair since its inception.

In Otaku no Video, the garage kit otaku was given the pseudonym " Sato Hiroshi " for the interview.

In Japan, a color version remake of director Kenji Mizoguchi's The 47 Ronin, entitled Chushingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki directed by Hiroshi Inagaki was released in 1962, the legendary story was also remade as a television series in Japan.

According to producer Hiroshi Iuchi, the main inspiration for the game's design was Image Fight, an arcade game by Irem from 1988.

A number of staff from Sunrise have gone on to form independent animation companies which have become well known in their own rights: Studio Deen was co-founded by Hiroshi Hasegawa and Takeshi Mochida, Bones was co-founded by Masahiko Minami, Toshihiro Kawamoto, and the late Hiroshi Ōsaka, and Manglobe was co-founded by Shinichirō Kobayashi and Takashi Kochiyama.

Hiroshi Abe, the first lieutenant who supervised construction of the railway at Sonkrai where over 3, 000 POWs died, was later sentenced to death as a B / C class war criminal.

In 1986, Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi noted that " Atari collapsed because they gave too much freedom to third-party developers and the market was swamped with rubbish games.

It was founded in 1992 by Mr Hiroshi Kawashima, the Head of the Shumei Foundation, and is located in a prize-winning building featuring a combination of western and oriental architectural styles on the campus of the University of Kent at Canterbury.

The first, based on Part 3, was simply titled JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, released on November 4, 1993 and written by Mayori Sekijima and Hiroshi Yamaguchi.

" Wakare no Ippon-sugi " was later covered by singers as diverse as Michiya Mihashi, Hideo Murata, Keiko Fuji, Hibari Misora, Saburō Kitajima, Takashi Hosokawa, and Hiroshi Itsuki.

Masaru Matsuyama also made his debut in 1965, but was not able to achieve commercial success and changed his stage name to Hiroshi Itsuki in 1971.

* Gendai Reiki Hō ( 現代靈氣法, meaning " Modern Spiritual Energy Method ") is a system that incorporates elements of both Japanese and Western Reiki, and was established by Hiroshi Doi.

The second wife Sutematsu ( survivor of the Battle of Aizu, sister of former Aizu retainers Yamakawa Hiroshi and Yamakawa Kenjiro ) was one of the first female students sent to the United States as part of the Iwakura Mission in the early 1870s.

Her biggest hit song was Ai no Makeikusa ( Losing the Fight of Love ; Your Hiroshi in the dubbed version ), which is featured in the beginning of the first episode, and as the ending theme for the second episode of the Pretty Sammy OVA.

However, Oh was not a strong enough pitcher to succeed professionally and soon switched to first base, working diligently with coach Hiroshi Arakawa to improve his hitting skills.

The Intelligent Robotics Lab, directed by Hiroshi Ishiguro at Osaka University, and Kokoro Co., Ltd. have demonstrated the Actroid at Expo 2005 in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

* Death and Afterlife: Perspectives of World Religions edited by Hiroshi Obayashi, Praeger, 1991

C ' mon Digimon spawned the popular Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01 manga, written by Hiroshi Izawa, which began serialization on November 21, 1998.

Another report on the origins and history of LCD from a different perspective until 1991 has been published by Hiroshi Kawamoto, available at the IEEE History Center.

MIT has also contributed significant research in this field, notably Things That Think consortium ( directed by Hiroshi Ishii, Joseph A. Paradiso and Rosalind Picard ) at the Media Lab and the CSAIL effort known as Project Oxygen.

* The 1958 Japanese movie Muhomatsu no issho ( Rickshaw Man ) by Hiroshi Inagaki tells the story of a Matsugoro, a rickshaw man who becomes a surrogate father to the child of a recently widowed woman.

On June 1, a decrypted transmission by Hiroshi Ōshima ( the Japanese ambassador ) to his government recounting a recent conversation with Hitler confirmed the effectiveness of Fortitude.

Blue is a 2001 Japanese romantic drama directed by Hiroshi Ando based on the manga of the same name by Kiriko Nananan.

Karl Haushofer is a supporting character in the best selling Japanese historical fantasy novel Teito Monogatari ( 1985 — 1989 ) by Hiroshi Aramata.

Ogai Mori, along with many other historical figures from the Meiji Restoration, plays a significant part in the fantasy / historical fiction novel Teito Monogatari by Hiroshi Aramata.

After a double fatal accident in 1974 on the Daiichi banking where drivers Hiroshi Kazato and Seiichi Suzuki were both killed in a fiery accident that injured 6 other people, a new part of track was built to counteract the problem, and the resultant course which also eliminated 5 other fast corners proved more successful.

The game's accompanying music was composed by Hiroshi Kawaguchi, who had previously composed soundtracks for other Sega games and was part of Sega's official band at the time, the S. S. T.

Other famous Japanese filmmakers from this period include Kenji Mizoguchi, Mikio Naruse, Hiroshi Inagaki and Nagisa Oshima.

Documentary played a crucial role in the New Wave, as directors such as Hani, Kazuo Kuroki, Toshio Matsumoto, and Hiroshi Teshigahara moved from documentary into fiction film, while feature filmmakers like Oshima and Imamura also made documentaries.

To this end, Ribbentrop often worked closely with General Hiroshi Ōshima, who served first as the Japanese military attaché, and then as Ambassador in Berlin, to strengthen German-Japanese ties despite furious opposition from the Wehrmacht and the Foreign Office, which preferred closer Sino-German ties.

* Hiroshi Nohara, a character from the Crayon Shin-Chan series

Political historian Hiroshi Aruga points out that: " The Sōka Gakkai membership rapidly increased, mainly among those who were of the downtrodden classes in large urban areas and who were excluded from the benefits of upward swing during the reconstruction period of postwar Japan.

Torahiko Terada, along with many important historical figures from the Meiji Restoration, is a central character in the fantasy / historical fiction novel Teito Monogatari by Hiroshi Aramata.

He graduated from Keio University, and attended the university in the same years as Macross creator Shōji Kawamori and screenwriter Hiroshi Ōnogi.

A new party of the same name ( 保守新党 Hoshu Shinto ) was then founded on December 25th 2002 by Hiroshi Kumagai, also a defector from the DPJ.

Hiroshi Kumagai and three other disgruntled DPJ members ( Takao Sato, Zenjiro Kaneko and Eriko Yamatani ) defected from the party in December 2002 and formed the second New Conservative Party with former members of the first New Conservative Party.

Many individuals have also benefited from the economic success of video games including the former chairman of Nintendo and Japan's third richest man: Hiroshi Yamauchi.

Hiroshi Fujimoto and Motoo Abiko were both from Toyama Prefecture.

The most recent manga adaptation was written by Hiroshi Ueda and focuses on the missions from Sousuke as a sergeant.

Hiroshi Fujioka and Takeshi Sasaki reprised their roles as Kamen Rider # 1 and Kamen Rider # 2 in this movie, before going on to be absent from the films of the franchise until Let's Go Kamen Riders, almost 36 years later.

He has shown that the uncanny valley that Karl MacDorman and Hiroshi Ishiguro generated – by having participants rate photographs that morphed from humanoid robots to android robots to human beings – could be flattened out by adding neotenous, cartoonish features to the entities that had formerly fallen into the valley.

The four-wheel independent struts, brakes, engine were all borrowed from the first generation Accord, but the chassis was all new and developed by chief engineer Hiroshi Kizawa expressly for the sporting Prelude.

In December 2007, Visionaire released an issue named Visionaire 53: Sound which comprises five 12 " records featuring contributions from over 100 artists including David Byrne, U2, Michael Stipe, Courtney Love, Laurie Anderson, Cat Power, Adrock, Lee Ranaldo, Antony & the Johnsons, Thurston Moore & Kim Gordon, Malcolm McLaren, Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian, Andrew W. K., Danger Mouse, Yoko Ono, Cerith Wyn Evans, Helmut Lang, Christian Marclay, Doug Aitken, Robert Wilson, Gary Hill, Sylvie Fleury, Vito Acconci, Mariko Mori, Carl Michael Von Hausswolff, The Knife, Littl ' ans, UNKLE, Animal Collective, SunnO ))), Gang Gang Dance, DJ Spooky, Miss Kittin, Trevor Jackson, Towa Tei, Nigo, Hiroshi Fujiwara, as well as fashion designers Karl Lagerfeld, Alexander McQueen, and Stefano Pilati, and many others.

Japan Tobacco controls 66. 4 % of the cigarette market in Japan and will seek more takeovers from 2009 to build on the 1. 4 trillion JPY ( USD 15 billion ) purchase of Gallaher Group, with then-President Hiroshi Kimura commenting that further acquisitions would be appropriate after the full integration of Gallaher by 2009.

Japan was a founding member of Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani's Japan e-business association in February 2010, but after Rakuten withdrew from Keidanren in June 2011 and made moves to become the Japan Association of New Economy as a rival to Keidanren, Yahoo!

In 1979, Ikeda was forced to resign as president of Sōka Gakkai, accepting responsibility for its purported deviation from Nichiren Shōshū doctrines, and the accompanying conflict with the priesthood, and was succeeded by Hiroshi Hōjō.